Category Archives: Ramblings

Test picture

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      I have to admit, I am posting this picture mostly as a test.  This is our first blog and I need practice sharing pictures.  The picture is a beach at Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick, Canada.  For a Chicago native like me, the place was pretty exotic.  One reason I enjoy traveling is becoming exotic too, a curiosity piece within the landscape.  Within the Maritime provinces, people will often give our car a once over before asking where we are from.  Although most people know of Chicago, Illinois is sometimes seen as a faraway and mysterious place.  Sometimes one finds themselves traveling a great distance only to suddenly re-enter the familiar.  That is what happened when we drove to Alaska and found ourselves surrounded by Midwesterners when hiking in Denali National Park.  It had been a month since meeting someone from Chicago and it was weird to talk to persons who had been at a Cub’s game just a day or two before.  It felt like traveling through an hourglass with the Alcan highway the most narrow point of the familiar and the two ends (Edmonton and Fairbanks) spread thick with the known.

Noel

In the beginning there was…..

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It is fitting that last night, in the parking lot of the Skokie Swift, there was a car parked that was everything I do not want this blog to be.  It could have been a race car it was so covered in advertisements.  But not many people race family sedans.  Somewhere on the door was a website and surrounding that banner was commercials for everything from auto repair to insurance that help the drivers of that car pay for gas, hotels, sport tickets, etc.  Over the last couple of months, Corey and I have talked about building a sort of low key travel site focused on people who travel like us; cheaply, kindly, in tents, KOA cabins, nice hotels time to time, and distant cousins’ couches.  Persons open to the road and the trail and the opportunities that are often just around the next corner.  Having just purchased a great road trip vehicle where we sacrificed our choice of color for a good deal, we were thinking of ways to justify putting some sort of a design on the door, a little something that would break up the gold that neither of us like.  And as we let our conversations wander we considered advertisements on our site that might make us some money.  We would become professional travelers.  Like William Least-Heat Moon.  So yesterday when confronted with what a professional traveler looks like, I realized that we are destined to be bush league.  And that is OK.

Rambles on The Road

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We at Hennacornoeli Days favor routes over itineraries.  Our route points us northwest so we will begin by driving to Cincinnati from Chicago.  Even by our standards this seems a bit roundabout, but Dan loves Liz and they need a flower girl.

June 24th we set sail…… Postings will be random and rambling as will our trip.